These days kids are inundated with videos and television programming, even in schools. Often this time spent in front of a screen comes at the expense of reading books. This is difficult to justify. While TV and movies can be insightful, I would argue that reading has much greater educational value.
Of course, how educational a text or a video is depends heavily on its content, which can vary widely. But in general, a person who is reading will be engaging with a more informational source than somebody who is watching TV or a movie. This is partly because video is best for telling stories, and stories are less likely to be truthful than simple fact. Take, for example, historical films such as Lincoln, a large Hollywood movie about the U.S. president Lincoln. The movie tried to tell a historically accurate story, but it was also meant to entertain the audience. The level of drama in that movie probably does not accurately reflect Lincoln’s actual daily life. A written biography of the man, on the other hand, can better clarify between what only might be true and what definitely is true.
But it’s not only the content of a book or movie that influences what the audience learns. The audience themselves must think about the information and remember it later in order to really grow. And in that way, text is again superior to video. Watching TV or a movie doesn’t require you to engage with the content. My boyfriend, for instance, will put on a television show while he cleans. Even if the show is a scientific documentary, he is not really focusing on the information he might learn. If he instead were reading a book, he would be forced to think about it, because reading requires more mental work.
Although both forms of entertainment can be educational, reading is generally better for developing the brain, both because of the material itself and because of the way we interact with it. Personally, I’m happy to do both, but if I want to feel like I’m growing as a person, I will pick up a book.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 12, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'kid'.
Suggestion: kid
These days kids are inundated with videos and televisio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, really, so, while, for example, for instance, in general, of course, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76966292135 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71966402382 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575842696629 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.1697062467 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.9 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203369826779 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.053581525455 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548993901255 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113249888242 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0438847185482 0.056905535591 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.0946893788 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.09 12.4159519038 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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